Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web server run by a hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you'd like to create a site, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some vendors, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts frequently involve ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a large number of pics with chums or colleagues since the service is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your electronic mail accounts. Some suppliers provide hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you desire to create an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to have a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At NTC Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific web content only.